Departure and Arrival
Tuns week the Spectator has a new Literary Editor, Ronald Bryden : his writing on books will already be familiar to our readers. In warmly welcoming him, we part with sorrow from his predecessor, Karl Miller, who has gone, after three years in which he has stamped a vigorous and alert personality upon the literary pages of the paper, to be Literary Editor of the New Statesman. We have always believed that the weekly magazines of our type do well or ill together, and that if one of us should fall on evil times, the other would do well not to rejoice too soon. So, though we mourn Karl Miller's departure from our pages, we do not begrudge his appearance in the New Statesman's. He has been assiduous, during his three years, in finding and encouraging new talent, both in the books he has had reviewed, and in the reviewers he has selected. The best tribute we can pay him is to give him, and our readers, the assurance that his successor will be as successful in his turn at finding still more new writers to add to the list of the well-established. New names, new features and new attitudes will be found in our literary pages alongside the familiar ones; we look forward to seeing the same effect take place in the New Statesman, and meanwhile we wish it, and its new Literary Editor, well.
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